{"id":4584,"date":"2011-02-05T13:07:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T13:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/?p=4584"},"modified":"2011-02-05T13:07:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T13:07:21","slug":"kenny-wallace-celebrates-his-first-open-wheel-modified-win-at-east-bay-raceway-park-friday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/front-page-news\/kenny-wallace-celebrates-his-first-open-wheel-modified-win-at-east-bay-raceway-park-friday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"KENNY WALLACE CELEBRATES HIS FIRST OPEN WHEEL MODIFIED WIN AT EAST BAY RACEWAY PARK FRIDAY NIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>TAMPA, FL-February 4, 2011-The excitement level in victory lane was off the charts as NASCAR driver Kenny Wallace celebrated a long-awaited win on a dirt track in his Open Wheel Modified Friday night at East Bay Raceway Park.
\n\u201cWhen I was a kid growing up in St. Louis, I used to read about the guys that run here and I always wanted to accomplish a convincing win on dirt. This is just my sixth year of dirt track racing and I have been watching all the fun Kenny Schrader has doing this. I decided to get this Impressive Race Car chassis and have some of that fun, too,\u201d Kenny told the crowd as he struck every possible victory pose with his trophy as the photographers captured every moment.
\nTrack announcer, Chris Stepan reminded Wallace how his day had started at the qualifying pill draw when Kenny had pulled his own car number \u201c36\u201d out of the can of 100 pills and the driver immediately said, \u201cThat means I\u2019m going to win the feature tonight!\u201d
\nEqually lucky was the draw Wallace had after he won the third heat and drew pole position out of a possible one to eight starting spots in the feature.
\nDespite five yellow flags in the 25 lap distance and loosing the lead for five laps, Wallace had the perfect set-up on his UNOH (University of Northwestern Ohio) and Federated Auto Parts sponsored brand new Impressive chassis. Following each yellow flag, he managed to pull away from the field even though it was Rodney Wing and Jeff Mathews on his tail and Vic Vena and Dale Mathison not far behind.
\nWallace was quick to credit chief mechanic Billy Smith with the success of his car on its maiden run. The crew had trouble in Wednesday night practice because of a miss and by process of elimination, they ran out of time after three sessions and parked that car and ran last year\u2019s car on Thursday night.
\nSmith, who is a nine-time feature winner himself at Farmington MO, found the problem by replacing the battery this morning and the new car was \u201cgood to go\u201d for tonight\u2019s race using a fresh Mullins engine and equipped with PRO-shocks.
\nWhen fourth starting Dale Mathison passed Wallace for the lead on the second lap and held the lead through lap six, Wallace admitted, \u201cI just couldn\u2019t run the cushion like he could, but when I got back by him on the lap seven restart, I could run my groove.\u201d
\nSecond place finisher Wing confessed, \u201cI tried everything to pressure him, but he never made a mistake.\u201d Jeff Mathews was a solid third, but never was a challenge to Wallace.
\nVic Vena had his best showing of the 12th Annual Open Wheel Modified Winternationals with his fourth place finish in his Malcuit powered BMS No. 01, while Mathison held on for fifth.
\nRounding out the top ten it was Dave Hess, Jr., Roger Crouse, Devin Dixon, Jeff Bland and Stanley Donahoo.
\nRick Hensley was fast timer over the 58 cars on hand with a time of 17.370 and the eight heat winners were Wing, Crouse, Wallace, Mathison, Vena, Dale Kelley, Mathews and 17-year old Adam Williams.
\nThe B-Mains sent Austin Sanders, Rick Aukland, Todd Neiheiser and Dave McWilliams from the first one to the A-Main, while Dixon, Buzzie Reutimann, Donahoo and Perry Brown from the second B-Main.<\/p>\n

Thanks, Jean Lynch for East Bay Raceway Park<\/p>\n

STATS \u2013 OPEN WHEEL MODIFIEDS \u2013 EAST BAY RACEWAY PARK \u2013 FRIDAY, 2\/4\/11<\/p>\n

Qualifying Results:
\n1. 03 Rick Hensley \u2013 17.370; 2. 22S Chad Kinder \u2013 17.617; 3. 2A Rick Aukland \u2013 17.729; 4. 33X Rodney Wing \u2013 17.756; 5. 40B Kyle Bronson \u2013 17.756; 6. 33 Jeff Mathews \u2013 17.769; 7. 47 Bill Howard \u2013 17.874; 8. 36 Kenny Wallace \u2013 17.878; 9. 38 Jeff Bland, Jr. \u2013 17.907; 10. 22 Dale Kelley \u2013 17.908; 11. 44H Dave Hess, Jr. \u2013 17.923; 12. 777 Jared Landers \u2013 17.927; 13. 64 Austin Sanders \u2013 17.967; 14. D00 Stanley Donahoo \u2013 18.069; 15. 28M Frank Marshall \u2013 18.113; 16. 9M Dale Mathison \u2013 18.152; 17. 2 Devin Dixon \u2013 18.256; 18. 01 Vic Vena \u2013 18.283; 19. 14 Adam William \u2013 18.284; 20. 11 Adam Colley \u2013 18.334; 21. 6 Daryl Herbert \u2013 18.355; 22. 00 Buzzie Reutimann \u2013 18.355; 23. 21 Joey Jenson \u2013 18.398; 24. 72 Todd Neiheiser \u2013 18.441; 25. 14C Corey Conley \u2013 18.479; 26. 8M Matt Miller \u2013 18.490; 27. 129 Rob Penny \u2013 18.572; 28. 144 Anthony Kinkade \u2013 18.576; 29. 3F Rob Fuqua \u2013 18.587; 30. 9C John Carpenter \u2013 18.591; 31. 25W Allen Weisser \u2013 18.625; 32. 155 Jimmy Payne \u2013 18.657; 33. 58 Matt Fetterhoff \u2013 18.697; 34. 96G Curt Gelling \u2013 18.718; 35. 75E Elliott Despain \u2013 18.753; 36. 5L Larry Lambert \u2013 18.775; 37. 9 Roger Crouse \u2013 18.782; 38. 88P David Pollen, Jr. \u2013 18.789; 39. 18 Dave McWilliams \u2013 18.801; 40. 55 David Orr \u2013 18.883; 41. 26 Bobby Gierke \u2013 18.886; 42. 6B Dave Baldwin \u2013 18.901; 43. 100 Reed Storley \u2013 18.904; 44. D4 Dave Jamison \u2013 18.938; 45. 271 Dakotah Stephens \u2013 18.943; 46. 01T Peyton Taylor \u2013 18.985; 47. 83B Perry Brown \u2013 18.989; 48. Z1 Zac Oedewaldt \u2013 18.996; 49. 44P Tim Powers \u2013 19.056; 50. 83 Joe Waba \u2013 19.241; 51. 45 Bob Broking \u2013 19.261; 52. 3K Jeremy Kerzman \u2013 19.294; 53. 6M Terry McClintock \u2013 19.295; 54. 45J Johnny Broking \u2013 19.341; 55. 96H Dennis Haven \u2013 19.361; 56. 44T Joe Turner \u2013 19.616; 57. 23 Terry Haven \u2013 19.943; 58. 05 Greg Johnson \u2013 25.670<\/p>\n

1st Heat \u2013 1)Rodney Wing 2)Chad Kinder 3)Austin Sanders 4)Adam Colley 5)Elliott Despain 6)Reed Storley 7)Bobby Gierke
\n2nd Heat \u2013 1)Roger Crouse 2)Anthony Kinkade 3)Todd Neiheiser 4)Bob Broking 5)Tim Powers 6)Dave Baldwin 7)Dennis Haven
\n3rd Heat \u2013 1)Kenny Wallace 2)Joey Jenson 3)Rick Aukland 4)Rob Penny 5)Terry McClintock 6)David Orr 7)Johnny Broking
\n4th Heat \u2013 1)Dale Mathison 2)Rob Fuqua 3)Dave McWilliams 4)Jared Landers 5)Peyton Taylor 6)Joe Turner 7)Terry Haven
\n5th Heat \u2013 1)Vic Vena 2)Corey Conley 3)Bill Howard 4)Curt Gelling 5)Frank Marshall 6)Joe Waba 7)Zac Oedewaldt
\n6th Heat \u2013 1)Dale Kelley 2)Jeff Bland, Jr. 3)Perry Brown 4)Matt Fetterhoff 5)John Carpenter 6)Jeremy Kerzman 7)Jimmy Payne
\n7th Heat \u2013 1)Jeff Mathews 2)Rick Hensley 3)Stanley Donahoo 4)Daryl Herbert 5)Greg Johnson 6)Matt Miller 7)Larry Lambert 8)Kyle Bronson
\n8th Heat \u2013 1)Adam William 2)Dave Hess, Jr. 3)Buzzie Reutimann 4)Devin Dixon 5)David Pollen, Jr. 6)Allen Weisser 7)Dakotah Stephens 8)Dave Jamison<\/p>\n

1st B \u2013 Main (Top 4 go to back of A inside row) \u2013 1)Austin Sanders 2)Rick Aukland 3)Todd Neiheiser 4)Dave McWilliams 5)Adam Colley 6)Jared Landers 7)Peyton Taylor 8)Bob Broking 9)Elliott Despain 10)Dave Baldwin 11)Reed Storley 12)Bobby Gierke 13)Joe Turner 14)Johnny Broking 15)Terry McClintock 16)Rob Penny 17)David Orr 18)Tim Powers 19)Dennis Haven 20)Terry Haven<\/p>\n

2nd B \u2013 Main (Top 4 go to back of A outside row) \u2013 1)Devin Dixon 2)Buzzie Reutimann 3)Stanley Donahoo 4)Perry Brown 5)Bill Howard 6)Frank Marshall 7)Greg Johnson 8)Matt Fetterhoff 9)Allen Weisser 10)Curt Gelling 11)Jimmy Payne 12)Dakotah Stephens 13)John Carpenter 14)David Pollen, Jr. 15)Jeremy Kerzman 16)Joe Waba 17)Dave Jamison 18)Larry Lambert 19)Daryl Herbert 20)Zac Oedewaldt 21)Matt Miller 22)Kyle Bronson DNS<\/p>\n

A \u2013 Main (25 Laps) \u2013 1)Kenny Wallace 2)Rodney Wing 3)Jeff Mathews 4)Vic Vena 5)Dale Mathison 6)Dave Hess, Jr. 7)Roger Crouse 8)Devin Dixon 9)Jeff Bland, Jr. 10)Stanley Donahoo 11)Adam William 12)Corey Conley 13)Chad Kinder 14)Rick Aukland 15)Joey Jenson 16)Rick Hensley 17)Anthony Kinkade 18)Dale Kelley 19)Austin Sanders 20)Rob Fuqua 21)Dave McWilliams 22)Perry Brown 23)Buzzie Reutimann 24)Todd Neiheiser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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